There has been clarification since this story broke. Adobe has not released the CS2 software for free. Instead, it has cancelled its CS2 license management servers, so for those with existing licenses it is now offering downloads that do not require contact with the licensing servers. This service is only going to be available for those with existing Adobe CS2 licenses, which will be verified when creating the Adobe account to download the software.

_________________You are all a disgrace to vegans. Go f*ck yourselves, especially linanil.

We may have heard wrong by interpreting this as an official statement from Adobe, but in actuality Adobe IS providing it for free. You can get it right from the Adobe site without any authentication. I think the only "oops" here is Adobe's by perhaps making this mistake and now only realizing it was actually a good move, so they're keeping it available.

I saw this on my camera clubs website last night. Very excited because I badly need an editor for photos that does more than the basics. Installing now so I will let you know if it works on the latest updates on mac.